An extra activity has been created when you come to Haast! Now you can take a Waiatoto river safari which includes an optional swim in the river during the morning tea stop.

People often ask me on the boat what is it like to live so remotely in the West Coast of New Zealand.

We are having a Christmas Market day and the children are learning about economics. They learnt how much each component of the sausage costs so that they can decide what to sell the sausages for at the market.

One thing I love about my job is the view from my ‘office’. When people arrive, sometimes they are travel weary or it may be raining as it does on occasion since we live in rain forest, and they ask if they will see anything from the boat.

We love fishing in our family. Our daughter Aru started fishing by the age of 2, her first fish was a baby flounder which looked like a leaf and she threw it back.